Our Call to Action
Why is diversity in medicine important?
Health Disparity
Health inequities experienced by communities of color and those with a disproportionate burden of disease are often exacerbated by the lack of diversity among physicians.
Health Advocacy
Physicians from ethnic minority groups provide the majority of care to underserved and non-English speaking populations compared to their White counterparts.
Cultural Competency
Racial/ethnic diversity in medical education enhances the learning and cross-cultural competencies of all physicians and will help to eliminate health disparities.
The Physician Landscape
This needs to change.
MD Physicians by Race/Ethnicity
From numbers in 2015
61%
White or Caucasian
11.7%
Asian or Asian American
4.1%
Black or African American
4.4%
Hispanic or Latino American
0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native
Mission Statement
#NODyes
The mission of National Outreach for Diversity in Medicine is to inspire, recruit, and retain Underrepresented in Medicine (UIM) youth in medicine. Through pipeline programs, exposure to medicine, and mentorship, we advocate that ethnic minority youths have the capacity to become physicians. We instill the ambition and confidence in them to pursue a medical degree so that our future consists of more culturally-equipped physicians, serving medically underserved communities.
We Care About Students
Our Goals
- To encourage under-represented minorities from K-12 public school systems to pursue medicine.
- To provide long-term mentorship and academic tools for students in an effort to increase their enrollment into college.
We Care About Sustainability
Our Aims
Research and increase awareness of the challenges and barriers that K-12 and college students of color face to pursue higher education.
Collaborate with coalition organizations to propose solutions on recruitment and retainment of students.
2016-2017 Objectives
Working towards diversity.
Organization
Collaborative Effort
Collaborate with national medical school organizations and their local chapters such as, but not limited to, LMSA, APAMSA, AMSA, ANAMS, and SOMA to elicit medical student participation.
Position StatementAction
Community Outreach
Encourage medical students across the country from the aforementioned organizations to reach out to elementary, middle, or high schools in medically underserved areas with the goal of encouraging the students to pursue a career in medicine.
Materials
Toolkit Development
Devise a standard mentorship toolkit each for grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 that instructs and guides medical students on engaging youth during the period of NOD in Medicine 2016.
Check out our Toolkits!Research
Program Assessment
Collect data of the youths’ perception of and barriers to the medical profession in addition to tangible solutions, using a pre- and post-assessment questionnaire, in order to implement these solutions for the coming year (2016-2017) and beyond.
Networking
Mentorship Database
Create a network and database of participating medical student organizational chapters to encourage and foster formal partnerships with K-12 schools participating in NOD in Medicine 2016.
Change
Expected Results
Based on national and local organizations pursuing similar work of mentorship in medicine, our coalition expects to enlist at least 50 U.S. medical schools in 25 states to make a difference in the lives of 1,500 K-12 students minimum.
Our Partners
For the first time ever, we've organized a national coalition.
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Dear Future Physicians of America,
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